By IANS
Bhopal : Violence marred students’ union polls across Madhya Pradesh Thursday with members of the two main rival student groups – Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and National Students Union of India (NSUI) – clashing at several places.
College managements cancelled the polls at some places. Three students were received gunshot injuries at a college in Sivni. There were reports of violence at the Mhow degree college in Indore district also.
ABVP is the students’ wing of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and NSUI is the students’ body of the Congress. The elections are being conducted across the state on Thursday and Friday.
“Both the groups (ABVP and NSUI) clashed at the Mhow Degree College in Indore district where the principal Asha Pandey fell unconscious while trying to pacify agitating students. The principal was rushed to a hospital. The polls in the college were cancelled,” a higher education department official said here Thursday.
Knives and pistols were freely used in the clash between members of the two unions at the degree college in Sivni district. The polls were cancelled there as well, the official said.
In Indore’s Khalsa College, police baton charged the students.
In Chhatrasal Degree College in Panna district, ABVP workers created a ruckus when they were not allowed to fill nominations because they were late. They later jammed the national highway to Khajuraho holding up tourists for hours.
In MGM College in Itarsi district, NSUI held a demonstration and shouted slogans against the college management alleging that it was working under the pressure of the local BJP member of parliament.
“Reports of disturbances during student union polls have also come in from Mandsor and Vidisha,” the official said.